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For the first five months of 2008, Iraq held its accustomed place of preeminence over Afghanistan (234 min v 25) in the networks' pecking order for warzone coverage. Things have changed in June. NBC sent anchor Brian Williams to Kabul last week and ABC have Jim Sciutto in Kandahar, where the Marine Corps' anti-Taliban sweep of neighboring villages encountered "little resistance." Afghanistan has received more coverage in the first half of this month than in the previous five months combined--and twice as much (32 min v 13 for June so far) as Iraq.
I read in the New York Times today, 6/23/08, that the 3 US networks are barely covering the Iraq war.
Do you have any figures on how much time in the last year the networks have covered Israel's military? It seems that I'm seeing more of their soldiers than I am getting information on US troops & battles in Iraq.
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